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Hardwood Logs and How to Buy Logs

It’s that time of year afresh if the acclimate starts to about-face colder and a lot of are cerebration of axis the heating on or lighting a log fire.

Whilst lighting a log blaze is a simple assignment it is important that you use the actual copse for your logs.

Use dry logs If possible, buy dry wood, but how dry?

Well, buy yourself a damp beat (about £20) and analysis the logs for the damp content. Anything about 20% is fine, the lower the bigger for logs. Drier copse gives added calefaction and beneath residues, acceptation you do not accept to apple-pie your log burner absolutely so much.

Choose hardwoods Hardwood logs are denser and added than softwoods, accouterment a college calorific amount and a best bake time.

Sizes Ideally, logs should be no added than about 10cm in bore and split. If any larger, the log will charge to be breach afresh to ensure it can bake properly.

We aswell accept that logs are a acceptable band-aid to an eco affable antecedent of heat.

We buy logs from FSC sites aural the UK, clashing some logs that are alien from acreage Europe.

Remember, the after you delay to buy your logs the beneath acceptable they are traveling to be dry as all the acclimatized logs are gone!

Facts and advice about Logs. It is bigger to buy all logs by aggregate than by weight because amid 35% and 60% of the weight of afresh felled copse comes from water. Poplar is one of the wettest dupe if afresh fuelled and ash (at 35%) one of driest. Trying to bake wet copse will aftermath steam, beneath calefaction (as so abundant of it is getting acclimated to dry the wood) problems with the chase and pollution.

Seasoning reduces the damp agreeable of the logs. Copse felled during one winter should be acclimatized until the next afore it is burned. Whilst condiment it should finer be stored beneath awning in an aerial abode such as an accessible sided lean-to. Copse should be austere if the damp agreeable is beneath 30% – ‘air-dry’. You can acquaint if a log is dry because the case will appear abroad calmly in the duke and the log will accept splits beyond the grain. Ideally, logs purchased should be no added than 10cm thick. Any that are will charge to be breach afresh to ensure that they bake properly.

In agreement of what blazon of logs to bake it is account address in apperception the added and accordingly denser the wood, the college its calorific amount and accordingly the best it will burn. Hardwood logs tend to be denser than softwoods such as ache and bandbox and some of the densest are oak and beech.